Notes by Prof. Salviati: This type of bracelet-shaped jade decorated on the outside with two types of masks carved within regular registers, represents a variation of the most common cong form that is so typical of the Liangzhu culture. A very close comparison to the present Lot is offered by a similar bracelet-shaped jade, excavated from tomb 3:43 at Sidun, Changzhou, Jiangsu province, decorated with the same double mask pattern: see Zhejiang institute of cultural relics and archaeology 浙江省文物考古研究所, Liangzhu wenhua yuqi 良渚文化玉器 (Jades of the Liangzhu Culture), Wenwu chubanshe, Beijing 1990, fig.11. In the same volume, see also pls.10, 13 and 14 with bracelet-shaped jades from tombs of the two important cemeteries of Fanshan and Yaoshan located in Yuhang county, Jiangsu. A fourth comparable jade has been discovered in tomb M2:34 of the Huiguanshan site, a few kilometres west of Liangzhu town, in Zhejiang province: it is reproduced in Zhejiang institute of cultural relics and archaeology 浙江省文物考古研究所, Zhejiang kaogu jinghua 浙江考古精华 (The Cream of Zhejiang Archaeology), Wenwu Publishing House, Beijing 1990, p.91. In Western collections, a comparable jade from the Hotung collection, exhibited in the British Museum, is published in J. Rawson, Chinese Jade from the Neolithic to the Qing, London 1995, no.3:1, while a similar bracelet-shaped jade from the collection of Charles Lang Freer (1854-1919) is in the Freer/Sackler Galleries, Washington, D.C., acc. no. F1917.384 and online image aTiefe: http://www.asia.si.edu/collections/edan/object.php?q=fsg_F1917.384

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